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potbelly

[pot-bel-ee] / ˈpɒtˌbɛl i /


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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

His swanky West Hollywood atelier had colorful wallpaper and African masks on the walls, a huge potbelly stove and a full bar, where customers could indulge throughout a fitting.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

Talia Greis, from Australia, won Macro, with an abstract portrait of a potbelly seahorse in the murky waters near Bare Island, Sydney.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2024

While the Kumasaka family was incarcerated in Minidoka, a fire caused by an overheated potbelly stove burned down the Green Lake Community Center and vandals extensively damaged the farm’s greenhouses.

From Seattle Times Aug. 7, 2023

She cleaned her hands at the washbasin, then ladled some stew from the pot cooling on the potbelly stove.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In Palomar, there are heroes with potbellies and wrinkles and pockmarked faces.

From New York Times Nov. 19, 2022

He stared out at a room full of gray hair, bald spots, potbellies, crow’s feet, laugh lines, liver spots, spider veins.

From The Guardian May 1, 2019

Suits idealize and triangulate the male torso, smoothing spare tires and hiding potbellies; dresses nip and tuck and create curves where there were none.

From New York Times Jan. 6, 2016

The first potbellies arrived in North America in 1985; their U.S. population, according to one estimate, may be as high as 6,000, and breeders at times are hard-pressed to keep up with demand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many top officers, notably Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, also sport unmartial potbellies.

From Time Magazine Archive




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